With tears running down her face and engulfed by disillusion, Marie walked down a long hall toward a room with a steel door and one small window. The walls within were cement and in the center of the room lay a mattress. She was asked to lie down so that she could be put in restraints; restraints that would protect her from herself. This mountain before Marie was enormous, and her faith was miniscule. She was trapped in a place where no light could enter. Confusion was her companion, and fear had paralyzed her mind. Forced to deal with harrowing experiences, this tumultuous journey led Marie down a path of trauma and brokenness. Her life was filled with tragedy, misfortune, and impossible circumstances. Marie had to go beyond intellectual reasoning and put her trust in God alone for guidance. God became her counselor, comforter, and touched her heart with his love. As Marie bares her soul and shares her story, you will get a glimpse into the heart of God and bear witness to the power he has to transform a life.

When a scrappy small-town pastor refuses to perform a gay wedding, he doesn’t expect the decision to send his sister to prison. Security videos and news footage show what really happened, but the judge won’t allow them as evidence. To make matters worse, the young pastor is falling in love with the angry but gorgeous TV reporter whose stories could hurt his sister’s chances for freedom.

As the years went by I didnt think about how much yell was putting me down until we had moved to Louisiana and then back to Oregon. You call yourself a mother and in your heart you could never do wrong. What kind of a mother would do that to her own daughter? You all would always tell me that I did not belong with you guys well you know youre right I dont belong to none of you. So you know all of you guys were wrong in what you have done. One day I will find my children.

Like the bestsellers Princess and Not Without My Daughter, Do They Hear You When You Cry? tells the dramatic, compulsively readable story of a woman fighting to free herself from the injustices of her culture. Fauziya Kassindja's harrowing story begins in Togo, Africa, where she enjoyed a sheltered childhood, shielded by her progressive father from the tribal practice of polygamy and genital mutilation. But when her father died in 1993, Fauziya's life changed dramatically. At the age of seventeen, she was forced to marry a man she barely knew who already had three wives, and prepare for the tribal ritual practice of genital mutilation - a practice that is performed without painkillers or antibiotics. But hours before the ritual was to take place, Fauziya's sister helped her escape to Germany, and from there she travelled to the United States seeking asylum - and freedom. Instead she was stripped, shackled and imprisoned for sixteen months by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Enter Layli Miller Bashir, a twenty-three-year-old law student who took on Fauziya's case. When the two women met, Layli found a broken, emaciated girl with whom she forged an extraordinary friendship. Putting her heart into Fauziya's case, Layli enlisted help from the American University International Human Rights Clinic. The clinic's acting director Karen Musalo, an expert in refugee law, assembled a team to fight on Fauziya's behalf. Ultimately, in a landmark decision that has given hope to many seeking asylum on the grounds of gender-based persecution, Fauziya was granted asylum on 13 June 1996. Here, for the first time, is Fauziya's dramatic personal story, told in her own words, vividly detailing her life as a young woman in Togo and her nightmarish day-to-day existence in American prisons. It is a story of faith and freedom, courage and inspiration - one that you will not easily forget.

It is late—midnight is already past. The dark hours preceding the shining forth of the Morning Star are upon us. Lamps must be trimmed and provided with oil now, or it will shortly be too late to go in with Him to the wedding. To rouse the sleepers is the object of this paper. May God speed the message and bless the present truth! It is late in the dispensation, so late that everything else pales into insignificance before the great blazing fact of all facts that “the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.” To all His own the cry rings out in power: “Awake, Thou That Sleepest!”

The life story of a little girl that endured various different hardships in life, lived to tell her testimony as an adult.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir. Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and serving as a hotel porter, a bricklayer, and a farm laborer before eventually finding his place in the world of literature. In Always the Young Strangers, Sandburg delivers a nostalgic view of small-town life around the turn of the twentieth century and an invaluable perspective on American history.